Food trivia
Name a style of beer
“Name a style of beer” is one of 63 food prompts in Icillion. Of its 116 accepted answers, 5 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Lager
- Ale
- Stout
- IPA
- Pilsner
One step down
These 15 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Porter
- Wheat beer
- Hefeweizen
- Pale ale
- Amber ale
- Brown ale
- Bock
- Saison
- Tripel
- Sour
- Lambic
- Witbier
- Dunkel
- Kolsch
- Barleywine
Answers by level
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsLager · Ale · Stout
- Below the Surface15 answers · 25 ptsPorter · Wheat beer · Hefeweizen …
- The Deep35 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss60 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 35 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, K, M, N, O, Q, R, S, V and W. The Abyss has 60 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 116 answers in total, 65 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ale”. Longest: “Foreign extra stout”.
- B, S and D are the most common first letters; together they start 33% of the answers.
- 41 answers can be typed more than one way: “Russian imperial stout” counts as Imperial stout.
Getting below the surface
- Start with B: 17 of the answers begin with it.
- Lager, Ale and Stout are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Regional varieties of cheese, bread and pasta are rarely the first answer.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a style of beer”?
- The usual first answers are Lager, Ale, Stout, IPA and Pilsner. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a style of beer”?
- 116 in all: 5 on The Tip, 15 Below the Surface, 35 in The Deep, 60 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a style of beer” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ale” and the longest is “Foreign extra stout”.
- How hard is “Name a style of beer”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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